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Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Japan's
nuclear regulators have come up with a revised plan to provide
emergency medical care to residents after accidents at nuclear power
plants. The government has until now helped set up hospitals near
nuclear plants to treat small numbers of workers exposed to radiation
in accidents.But in the 2011 nuclear disaster at the ‪Fukushima
Daiichi plant, local medical facilities were unable to adequately
treat the many residents thought to have been exposed to radiation.
At their meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, the NRA, presented a draft of
revised guidelines for creating a network of medical facilities. The
plan proposes that prefectures within 30 kilometers of plants
designate 1 to 3 hospitals as base facilities to deal with nuclear
disasters.The hospitals are to have teams of experts treat
patients after accidents and go to other prefectures where nuclear
accidents occur.The draft also calls for designating hospitals
and other facilities within around 30 kilometers of nuclear plants as
“cooperating organizations." The facilities would check
evacuees for exposure to radiation and treat the injured and sick.
The NRA is to decide on the revised guidelines after soliciting
opinions from the public for 30 days from Thursday.

The top
official of a group of nuclear energy experts says the Fukushima
Daiichi accident has made it difficult for Japan to properly train
enough nuclear specialists.

Hiroshi Uetsuka, the new president
of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, told reporters on Wednesday
that every research reactor housed at universities and other
institutes across Japan is idled.

Uetsuka said the operators
of those institutes are unable to meet regulations that were revised
following the nuclear accident. He said the budgets and staff for the
research reactors have been cut.

The president called the
situation very serious because of the challenges that both
decommissioning and restarting reactors present.

He said his
society will put together proposals to address the problem.

Uetsuka
said the cause of the Fukushima Daiichi accident is well understood,
but investigations have yet to determine what exactly is going on
inside the reactors.